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Riker Rhodes

@rikerrhodes.bsky.social

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I write too little, and talk too much https://substack.com/@rikerrhodes https://x.com/riker_rhodes

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Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

hmmmmm
No honestly I feel like my sci-fi favorites are pretty vanilla

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

And Identity theft

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

Is that the Balrog? Is he coming for Gandalf?

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

Nope. No one ever has ever known that. Their desire to climb Everest is exactly prevalent in their life as their thoughts of the Roman Empire.

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

I mean... They were asking a genuine question here...

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

I see no problems with this

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly true. Professional editors aren't your highschool buddy who is trying to highjack your story, they are people who are good at what they do, know what they are talking about, and actually are trying to make sure your work succeed.

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

THATS AWSOME congrats

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

NOOOO not the kitty ): We are friends promise...

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 10h

POV: you are going to be bitten

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

HAHA

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

yes mary. BASH the machine.

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 9h

Hey don't you guys want to watch me fail miserably and trying to write a poem with Iambic Pentameter, which I only vaguely recall from high school?

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It Wasn't A Genie

A cozy poem about being fooled

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Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks <3 <3

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

The USA as a developed country is so behind in public transportation and it hurts my soul.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

LOVE IT

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

Unless they are digital paintings

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

I see Tron Ares on there what is this lol

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

So... What is the definition of starving artist? Do I actually have to be starving? Or is it about being broke? If I have food but am broke can I still qualify? What if I have a job but am on a massive caloric deficit?

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

I will literally follow you right now

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Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

HAHA

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly
Pretty great
The distortion is fun and the simple progression of the riff is sick

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

Give me a game where I can shank KKK members as a core game mechanic PLEASE

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 13h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

WHAT
ITS ASSASSINS CREED
IT HAS ASSASSINS
WHAT DO YOU WANT UBISOFT

Riker Rhodes @rikerrhodes.bsky.social · 13h

HAHA
I want your accidental success Dan